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Kahane and Wainer explain that the calendar is the master key to unlock the hidden rationale behind the formal structure of ancient sacred texts, as well as to understand basic mystical concepts. When comprehended within the context of the Jewish calendar, these works reveal the spiritual energy of each week, serving as a practical guide for self-analysis and development.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Book 5 in a Nutshell

B"H

Tehilim and Perek
Shirah

Tikkun Klali

Psalm 89

Rosh Hashanah

Psalms 1-3

Psalm 16

1. A michtam of David; O G-d, guard me for I have taken refuge in You.

2. You should say to the Lord, "You are my Master; my good is not
incumbent upon You.

3. For the holy ones who are in the earth, and the mighty ones in whom
is all my delight.

4. May the sorrows of those who hasten after another [deity] increase;
I will not pour their libations of blood, nor will I take their names upon my
lips.

1. A maskil of Ethan the
Ezrahite.

2. The kindnesses of
the Lord I shall sing forever; to generation after generation I shall make
known Your faithfulness, with my mouth.

Yom Kippur

Psalms 4-6

5. The Lord is my allotted portion and my cup; You guide my destiny.

6. Portions have fallen to me in pleasant places; even the inheritance
pleases me."

7. I will bless the Lord, Who counseled me; even at night my
conscience instructs me.

3. For I said, "Forever will it be built with kindness; as the
heavens, with which You will establish Your faithfulness."

Sukkot

Psalms 7-9

8. I have placed the Lord before me constantly; because [He is] at my
right hand, I will not falter.

10. For You shall not forsake my soul to the grave; You shall not
allow Your pious one to see the pit.

4. I formed a covenant with My chosen one; I swore to David My servant.

Shemini Atzeret

Psalms 10-12

11. You shall let me know the way of life, the fullness of joys in
Your presence. There is pleasantness in Your right hand forever.

Psalm 32

1. Of David, a maskil Praiseworthy is he whose transgression is
forgiven, whose sin is concealed.

2. Praiseworthy is the man to whom the Lord ascribes no iniquity and
in whose spirit there is no guile.

3. When I was silent, my bones decayed with my moaning all day long.

5. Until eternity, I shall establish your seed, and I shall build your
throne for all generations forever.

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan

Psalms 13-15

4. For [both] day and night Your hand is heavy upon me; my freshness
was transformed as in the droughts of summer, forever.

5. I would inform You of my sin, and I did not conceal my iniquity; I
said, "I will confess my transgressions to the Lord," and You
forgave the iniquity of my sin forever.

6. For this let every pious man pray to You at the time that You are
found, only about a flood of vast waters [that] should not reach him.

6. And the heavens acknowledge Your wonder, O Lord, also Your
faithfulness in the congregation of holy ones.

First Week of Cheshvan

(Potential 3rd Temple Holiday)

Psalms 16-18

7. You are a shelter for me, from an adversary You guard me; with
songs of deliverance You encompass me forever,

8. "I will enlighten you and instruct you which way [to go]; I
will wink My eye to you."

9. Be not like a horse, like a mule that does not discern; whose mouth
must be held with bit and bridle, so that when he is being groomed, he does
not come near you.

7. For who in the heavens is equal to the Lord? [Who] resembles the
Lord among the sons of the mighty?

Second Week of
Cheshvan

(3rd Temple)

Psalms 19-21

10. Many are the pains of the wicked, but as for him who trusts in the
Lord- kindness will encompass him.

11. Rejoice with the Lord and exult, You righteous, and cause all
those of upright hearts to sing praises.

Psalm 41

1. For the conductor, a song of David.

2. Praiseworthy is he who looks after the poor; on a day of calamity
the Lord will rescue him.

8. G-d is revered in the great council of the holy ones and feared by
all around Him.

Third Week of Cheshvan

(3rd Temple)

Psalms 22-24

3. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be
praised in the land, and You will not deliver him into the desire of his
enemies.

4. The Lord will support him on his sickbed; when You have transformed
his entire restfulness in his illness.

5. I said, "O Lord, be gracious to me; heal my soul because I
have sinned against You."

9. O Lord, G-d of Hosts, who is like You, O Yah, Who are mighty? And
Your faithfulness surrounds You.

Fourth Week of Chesvan or Rosh Chodesh Kislev

Psalms 25-27

6. My enemies
speak evil of me; "When will he die and his name be lost?"

7. And if he
comes to see [me], he speaks falsely; his heart gathers iniquity for him;
when he goes outside, he talks.

8. All my
enemies whisper together about me; concerning me, they think evil.

10. You rule over the pride of the sea; when it raises its waves, You
humble them.

Rosh Chodesh Kislev or 1st week

Psalms 28-30

9. "An
evil thing shall be poured into him, and once he lies down, he will no longer
rise."

10. Even my
ally, in whom I trusted, who eats my bread, developed an ambush for me.

11. But You, O
Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up, so that I may repay them.

11. You crushed Rahab like one slain; with the arm of Your might You
scattered Your enemies.

Yud Kislev

Psalms 31 - 33

12. With this I
shall know that You desired me, when my enemy does not shout joyfully over
me.

13. As for me,
because of my innocence You shall support me, and stand me up before You
forever.

14. Blessed is
the Lord, the G-d of Israel from all times past and to all times to come.
Amen and amen.

12. The heaven is Yours, even the earth is Yours; the inhabited earth
and the fullness thereof-You founded them.

Yud Tet Kislev

Psalms 34-36

Psalm 42

1. For the
conductor, a maskil of the sons of Korah.

2. As a hart
cries longingly for rivulets of water, so does my soul cry longingly to You,
O G-d.

3. My soul
thirsts for G-d, for the living G-d; when will I come and appear before G-d?

4. My tears
were my bread day and night when they say to me all day long, "Where is
your G-d?"

13. North and south-You created them; Tabor and Hermon sing praises in
Your name.

Chanukah

Psalms 37-39

5. These things
I will remember, and I will pour out my soul [because of the pain which is]
upon me, how I passed on with the throng; I walked slowly with them until the
house of G-d with a joyful shouting and thanksgiving, a celebrating
multitude.

6. Why are you
downcast, my soul, and why do you stir within me? Hope to G-d, for I will yet
thank Him for the salvations of His presence.

7. My G-d, my
soul is downcast upon me; therefore, I will remember You from the land of
Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from the young mountain.

14. You have an arm with might; Your hand is mighty, Your right hand
is high.

Chanukah/Rosh Chodesh Tevet

Psalms 40-42

8. Deep calls
to deep to the sound of Your water channels; all your breakers and waves passed
over me.

9. By day, may
the Lord command His kindness, and at night, may His resting place be with
me, a prayer to the G-d of my life.

10. I will say
to G-d, my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why should I walk in gloom
under the oppression of the enemy?"

15. Righteousness and judgment are the basis of Your throne; kindness
and truth come before Your countenance.

10th of Tevet

Psalms 43-45

11. With murder
in my bones, my oppressors have reproached me by saying to me all day long,
"Where is your G-d?"

12. Why are you
downcast, my soul, and why do you stir within me? Hope to G-d, for I will yet
thank Him for the salvations of my countenance and my G-d.

Psalm 59

1. For the
conductor, al tashcheth; of David a michtam, when Saul sent and they guarded
the house to slay him.

2. Save me from
my enemies, my G-d; strengthen me against those who rise up against me.

16. Fortunate is the people that know the blasting of the shofar; O
Lord, may they walk in the light of Your countenance.

Third Week of Tevet

Psalms 46-48

3. Save me from
workers of iniquity, and rescue me from bloodthirsty men.

6. May my
tongue cling to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up
Jerusalem at the beginning of my joy.

50. Where are Your former acts of kindness, O Lord, which You swore to
David in your trust?

Chai Elul

Psalms 148-150

7. Remember, O
Lord, for the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, those who say, "Raze
it, raze it, down to its foundation!"

8. O Daughter
of Babylon, who is destined to be plundered, praiseworthy is he who repays
you your recompense that you have done to us.

9. Praiseworthy
is he who will take and dash your infants against the rock.

51. Remember, O Lord, the disgrace of Your servants, which I bear in
my bosom, [the disgrace] of all great nations.

Fourth Week of Elul

Perek Shirah, Chapters
1 - 3

Psalm 150

1. Hallelujah!
Praise G-d in His holy place, praise Him in the firmament of His might.

2. Praise Him
with His mighty deeds, praise Him as befits His superb greatness.

3. Praise Him
with a shofar blast, praise Him with psaltery and lyre.

52. Which Your enemies disgraced, O Lord, which they disgraced the
ends of Your anointed.

Slichot/Rosh Hashanah

Perek Shirah, Chapters
4 - 6

4. Praise Him
with timbres and dance, praise Him with stringed instruments and flute.

5. Praise Him
with resounding cymbals, praise Him with resonant cymbals.

6. Let every
soul praise G-d. Hallelujah!

53. Blessed is the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.

יבא ירחמיאל חיל

Book 5

Ultimately, it is important to have standards that apply to all. King Solomonwas incredibly wise righteous, yet he mistakenly thought that the message in Devarim regarding kings having too many wives did not apply to him. This was a grave mistake, which ultimately led to his downfall. We have to internalize that everything in the Torah is eternal, and that no one is above its laws. These general standards also help us not deviate from the True Path: neither in the way of “elevating the world” (like King Solomon), nor in the way of separating oneself from it (like the nazirite, the Nazir).

Even if some general decrees seem inconvenient, we have to make them fit in our lives, and observe them in a manner that beautifies the mitzvoth and beautifies our lives.

This is the essence of the Book of Deuteronomy (Devarim): setting up general guidelines applicable to all. Devarim is also called Mishneh Torah (a repetition of the Torah), a review and summary of the rest of the Torah. Book 5 is an attempt to reflect these themes. The sets of 52 included in this book are as follows:

The Book of Psalms is King David’s “general” prayer book, as it contains the emotions of every person. King David is the ultimate general soul (Neshamah Klali), his life being given to him by Adam himself, whose name stands for Adam-David­-Mashiach. Perek Shirah incorporates not only man, but all of Creation.

The Book of Psalms is a read as a general Tikkun (spiritual correction), especially during the month of Elul for sins committed throughout the entire year. In fact, the Ba’al Shem Tov instituted that three psalms should read each day of this month, and that the entire book should be read by Yom Kippur. The Mishnah Berurah also sets forth the custom of reading the entire book of Psalms (twice) during this time period. The Book of Psalms along with Perek Shirah contain 156 chapters, fifty-two divided by three.

Rebbe Nachman’s Tikkun HaKlali works as kind of “summary” of the book of Psalms. It contains the ten kinds of song contained in the Book of Psalms. Without counting the introductory verses of its Psalms, it contains 156 verses. Psalm 88 and 89 appear to be a summary of Tikkun Klali itself. (One of the hints to this idea, is the fact that according to the Baal Shem Tov's instructions, these Psalms are read on Rosh Hashanah) Without counting its introductory verse, Psalm 89 contains 52 verses. Its 33rd verse appears to be a summary of the entire Book, similar to the way in which Tzadik B’Emunatoh Yichieh (the righteous lives by his/her faith) is the summary of the entire Torah. The 33rd verse is, “But I shall not cancel My kindness from him, and I shall not betray My faith,” “VeChasdi Lo Afir M’Imoh, VeLo Ashaker B’Emunati.”

Rebbe Yisrael Taub and his son, Shaul Yedidya Elazer Taub, the First and Second Rebbes of Modzitz

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The date also marks the yahrzeit of emmissaries Gavriel Noach and Rivky Holzberg, who died "Al Kidush Hashem" (sanctifying G-d's Holy Name), as well as the Rebbe's miraculous recovery from a massive heart attack.

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Burial Place of the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber of Lubavitch

His yahrzeit (and birthday) is on Tuesday, the 9th of Kislev. The following day, the 10th of Kislev, is celebrated as the day of his personal redemption.